The Summer Palace Tour with My Wife

Summer Palace is China's largest existing and best preserved imperial garden in China's four famous gardens (the other three for the Chengde Mountain Resort, Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden in Suzhou) one. Located in Haidian District, Beijing, from Beijing city 15 kilometers covering approximately 290 hectares. The use of Kunming Lake, Longevity Hill to the base, West Lake in Hangzhou is modeled to learn some of the Southern Gardens conception and design techniques and built a large natural landscape garden, but also preserved the most complete Regency a royal palace, known as Royal Garden Museum.

Summer Palace (Summer Palace) was originally a palace and gardens of the Qing emperors, former Qing Yi Park, the three mountain five gardens (three mountains is the Longevity Hill, Jade Spring Mountain, and Fragrant Hill. Three mountains, three parks were built Qing-Yi Park, Providence Park, Jing Ming Yuan, in addition to the vicinity of Chang Chun and the Summer Palace, collectively referred to five garden) in the final build of a garden, was founded in 1750, built in 1764, area of ​​290 hectares, about three-quarters of the water. Qianlong before the throne, in the area west of Beijing, has built four large imperial garden, from Xiangshan, Haidian to these four self-contained garden, lack of organic links between the middle of the "urn Hill Park" has become an open area . Qianlong fifteen years (1750), Emperor Qianlong to honor his mother Empress Xiao Sheng to spend 4.48 million taels of silver here into a Qing-Yi Park, as a garden center to both sides of the four fused, formed from the existing Tsinghua to the Fragrant Hills Park, 20 kilometers long imperial garden area. Xianfeng decade (1860) and Qing Yi Park, the British and French troops burned. Guangxu fourteen years (1888), Empress Dowager Cixi to raise funds on behalf of the Navy to use silver (According to expert research, should 500-6000000 taels of silver), by the style of Ray presided over the seventh-generation descendant Leiting Chang reconstruction, was renamed the Summer Palace for summertime recreation ground. Twenty-six years into the dynasty (1900), the Summer Palace will again be "Boxer Rebellion" of damage, and many treasures were looted. Qing Dynasty, (1903) repair. Later in the warlords, the Kuomintang rule, again be destroyed, the government continued funding after the 1949 renovation.

March 4, 1961, the Summer Palace was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, in November 1998 was included in the "World Heritage List." May 8, 2007, the Summer Palace formally approved by the China National Tourism Administration for the state 5A-class tourist attractions. In 2009, the Summer Palace was selected Chinese Association of World Records the largest imperial garden existing in China. Summer Palace has a number in the world, China the most.